1790, where he again taught school for nearly forty
years. He was an accomplished penman and an expert in arithmetic and
the elementary mathematics. There can be no doubt, I think, that Fisher
was indebted to this gentleman for an education that was very fair
indeed, in the then circumstances of the country. Fisher unquestionably
possessed a good deal of natural ability, and was something of a
philosopher, as will appear when we come to consider his writings. He
carried on quite an extensive business in lumbering at one time. He was
noted as a tireless pedestrian and there were few, even among his
juniors, who could keep pace with him in a walk of fifty miles, which
he thought nothing of. He married on August 15, 1807, Susanna Stephens
Williams, the Rev. George Pidgeon, rector of Fredericton, officiating
at the wedding. Their family was a large one, seven sons and four
daughters.[2] The late Judge Charles Fisher, who was born September 16,
1808, was the oldest. Another son, Henry Fisher, was Chief
Superintendent of Education of New-Brunswick. Lewis Peter Fisher, a
younger son, was for years Woodstock's most prominent citizen and a
very eminent lawyer. Another son, William Fisher, was for some years
Indian Commissioner. One of the daughters was the wife of Hon. Charles
Connell, Postmaster General, at one time in the local government, and a
member of the first Dominion Parliament for the County of Carleton. At
least three of the sons of Peter Fisher were actively interested in
education. Of these Charles Fisher received the degree of B.A. at
King's College, now the University of New Brunswick, in 1830. His was
the first class to graduate after the incorporation of the college by
Royal Charter, under the name of King's College with the style and
privileges of a University. He read law with Judge Street, then
Advocate General, was admitted attorney in 1831 and barrister in 1833.
He spent a year at one of the Inns of Court in England. His Alma Mater
conferred on him the degree of D.C.L. in 1866. Judge Fisher during his
public life was a warm friend of the College at Fredericton. At the
session of the provincial legislature, in 1859, he moved the bill under
which the old King's College was transformed into the University of
New-Brunswick. He was later a member of the Senate of the University.

[2] I am pretty certain that Susanna Stephens Williams was a
daughter of Bealing Stephens Williams, the school master.--W.